No real theme this week, but I am unusually excited about the West Marches material (as shown by my post yesterday talking about starting my own campaign in a similar style). Topic: “My Edition of D&D” I’m going to start off with a couple of related posts. With Monte Cook …
Ben Robbins had what looks like a very good sandbox campaign, and a remarkable way of managing PCs available at any given time. This post describes how I think I’ll go about giving it a try, because it sounds like it’ll work very well for me, given the difficulties I’ve had in maintaining a steady group of players online… and the design requirements for any particular session are relatively small compared to my normal campaign design mechanisms. I’m looking for players and possibly co-GMs.
Let’s see… I seem to have a lot of campaign setting posts in this week’s link list. Age of Ravens The Road to Doubtfall: A Microscope Alchemical AP (http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2011/09/road-to-doubtfall-microscope-alchemical.html) Lowell is working on an alchemist-focused campaign. This post describes a Microscope session he ran with his wife regarding this campaign. For such …
This week’s links. Some here I will need to go back and read in greater detail… the ‘Pocket Civ’ (first link) looks really interesting to me, but I haven’t yet had time to dig into it deeper. BattReps Developing a civilization in a pocket (http://battreps.blogspot.com/2011/09/developing-civilization-in-pocket.html) This post describes ‘pocket Civ’, …
This week’s interesting links. Age of Ravens Kingdom of Staircases: A Microscope AP (http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdom-of-staircases-microscope-ap.html) Ever since GreyKnight turned me on to Microscope (from Lame Mage Productions) I’ve loved the idea of it. It’s a collaborative history-building and world-building ‘game’ where the players design a world by assertion. Play bounces around …
A few weeks ago I joined the RPG Blog Alliance (with both KJD-IMC.org and EchelonD20.org) and have been reading a huge number of really interesting articles. Yes, this has reduced my productivity by eating time I could be spending on my own writing. However, it has also provided me with …
Or perhaps these just in. The C&C players handbook and Monsters and Treasures book from the sale Troll Lord just ended; Savage Worlds Deluxe rulebook; Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett et al. (which has been out of print for a while and rather harder — read “OMG …
I recently posted a description in a comment to a blog post of how I handle experience and level gains that I thought I should include on my own site. In considering how to write it, I realized it might be worth exploring a few other models of character development …
Some sample ‘wax seals’ I’ve thrown together to explore how they might fit into Greg’s game Freebooter. And what they might look like when applied to the page. Not quite done, I see a couple of other options that I might like better… but for a quick test …
It’s just an idle thought, really, but what if vampires (in D&D in particular) actually needed intelligent prey? They don’t chase them because they’re into gorgeous women in diaphanous nightgowns (though, honestly, that’s a good enough reason for me), but because their own intellect and ability to hold back their bestial …